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Does LyX support \hyperlink and \hypertarget commands, or do I have to access them through ERTs?
Is there any other way to make text links without hyperlink/hypertarget that LyX supports? I want to have a sentence that I can click on to move to another part of the document.
I think these are the ones listed in Tools --> Preferences --> File Handling --> Converters (see screenshot at the bottom). There you can see the command line arguments used.
The $$<letter> variables refer to the following (from the LyX Customization manual, found under Help --> Customization, section 3.3):
$$s The LyX system directory$$i The input file$$o The output file$$b The base filename of the input file (i.e., without the extension)$$p The path to the input file$$r The path to the original input file (this is different from $$p when a chain of converters is called)$$e The iconv name for the encoding of the document.Quoting the manual mentioned above:
In the Extra Flag field you can enter the following flags, separated by commas:
latexThis converter runs some form of LaTeX. This will make LyX's LaTeX error logs available.needauxNeeds the LaTeX.auxfile for the conversion.xmlOutput is XML.The following three flags are not really flags at all because they take an argument in the key = value format:
parselogIf set, the converter's standard error will be redirected to a fileinfile.out, and the script given as argument will be run as:script < infile.out > infile.log. The argument may contain `$$s`.resultdirThe name of the directory in which the converter will dump the generated files. LyX will not create this directory, and it does not copy anything into it, though it will copy this directory to the destination. The argument may contain$$b, which will be replaced by the base name of the input and output files, respectively, when the directory is copied. Note thatresultdirandusetempdirmake no sense together. The latter will be ignored if the former is given.resultfileDetermines the output file name and may, contain$$b. Sensible only withresultdirand optional even then; if not given, it defaults toindex.
One partial method is using Close inset as sugggested in the comments of your question.
Here's an ad-hoc add-on: Edit the preferences in your boss' LyX installation to make the closed ERT insets invisible.
In particular, go to Tools > Preferences > Look & Feel > Colors and change the color of LaTeX text to be the same as background, and do the same for button background (for collapsed inset) and for the border of the closed inset (which I couldn't find fast).
This way, the ERT will be invisible, but not locked.
If your boss should happen to click on one of those now invisible fields, her frustration might wreck your code. Not optimal, but at least the code won't show :)
Best Answer
Linking document parts in LyX
In LyX, linking between points or parts inside a document, is done via cross-references. Quoting from The LyX User’s Guide, version 2.0.x, section 6. More Tools, sub-section 6.1. Cross-References:
First, create a label (Insert > Label... ) for the part that is to be referenced. Second, create a cross-reference (Insert > Cross-Reference...) to make a clickable reference which will direct to the labeled part of the document.
One can define the color of the links by using hyperref's options. In Document > Settings > PDF Properties check the Use Hyperref Support and then define the link-color of interest in the Additional options field, i.e.
linkcolor=magenta.Making arbitrary text parts linkable
Currently there is no identical implementation of hyperref's
\hyperlinkand\hypertargetadditional user macros (see also LaTeX/Hyperlinks at wikibooks.org) in form of an inset within LyX. A thread in lyx-devel's mailing list, titled Insets for hypertarget and hyperlinks, discusses the question of interest.